{"id":140630,"date":"2024-02-24T17:17:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T00:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=140630"},"modified":"2024-02-24T17:17:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T00:17:37","slug":"you-can-call-me-pad-man-but-i-will-focus-on-womens-health-sajith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/02\/24\/you-can-call-me-pad-man-but-i-will-focus-on-womens-health-sajith\/","title":{"rendered":"You can call me \u2019Pad Man\u2019 but I will focus on women\u2019s health: Sajith"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Kandy, Feb. 24 (Daily Mirror)- Renewing his pledge made during the 2019 Presidential election, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa today said he will focus on the maximum on women&#8217;s health if elected as President of this country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I was called &#8216;Pad Man&#8217; during the last Presidential election when I spoke of women&#8217;s health. Talking of women&#8217;s health is taboo only in Sri Lanka. However, Scotland and New Zealand provide sanitary pads to women free of charge. I will follow these countries and will do the same. You can call me Pad Man,&#8221; Premadasa told a women&#8217;s convention organized by SJB in Kandy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Kandy, Feb. 24 (Daily Mirror)- Renewing his pledge made during the 2019 Presidential election, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa today said he will focus on the maximum on women&#8217;s health if elected as President of this country.&nbsp; &#8220;I was called &#8216;Pad Man&#8217; during the last Presidential election when I spoke of women&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sjb-jvp-promises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}